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Brian's Contact Info: Mailing Address: Brian W. Carver University of California, Berkeley School of Information 102 South Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 Office Phone: 510.643.1469 Email Address: Sign Up for Office Hours at wejoinin.com/brian

Courses taught

INFO 237: Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries (Fall)

• INFO 237 Fall 2013 Syllabus
• Prior syllabi: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

INFO 235 / LAW 276.1: Cyberlaw (Spring)

• Spring 2014 Syllabus
• Prior syllabi: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

INFO 375: Teaching Assistance Practicum

• Spring 2014: Syllabus (coming soon)

INFO 290: Special Topics in Information

• Spring 2011: Integrative Workshop (with various faculty), Course blog
• Spring 2010: Commons-based Peer Production Course description, CBPP Course Website

INFO W10: Introduction to Information

• This is the School of Information's first fully web-based course.
• Video Intro
• Course Description
• Fall 2012 Course Website

INFO 98/198: Digital Berkeley: Making Open Educational Resources

• Spring 2011 Course Website (DeCal Course Facilitated by Renee Carignan & Michael Pruess)
• Fall 2010 Course Website (DeCal Course Facilitated by Matt Senate)

Topical Links

I use this wiki to maintain a list of links to news stories, court decisions, legal briefs, and scholarly articles relevant to the topics discussed in my courses and research. Students in my courses contribute many of these links and may assist in this wiki's maintenance as an assignment.

Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries	Cyberlaw
Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Agreements	Personal Jurisdiction for Online Activities and International Jurisdiction
Copyright Protection for Code	Indecent Speech and Censorship on the Internet
First Sale and Section 117	Immunity for Internet Intermediaries
Fair Use	Liability for Posting Information Obtained by Others
Copyright Liability for Internet Intermediaries	Copyright Liability for Internet Intermediaries
Copyright Misuse and Preemption	Digital Rights Management and Anti-circumvention
Contract Formation: Shrinkwrap, Clickwrap, and Browsewrap licenses	Internet Governance and Network Neutrality
Digital Rights Management and Anti-circumvention	Statutory and Common Law Claims to Protect Online Privacy
Warranties and Disclaimers	Fourth Amendment as Applied to Online Privacy
Free Software and Free Culture	Civil and Criminal Hacking (The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act)
DMCA Safe Harbors	Online Anonymous Speech and the First Amendment
Cybersquatting, the UDRP, ACPA, and Gripe Sites	Spam and Unfair or Deceptive Practices Online
Pop-up and Keyword Advertising	Virtual Property
Software and Business Method Patents	Other Issues of Online Free Speech
IP Wikipedia Project	Cyberlaw Wikipedia Project

• Sources.
• Contributing.

Final Project Advising

Brian has advised I School students on the following final projects:

• KnowPrivacy, Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, Ashkan Soltani (2009).
• CourtListener, Michael Lissner (2010).
• Masks: Designing for Privacy in Education, Heather Ford, Alex Smolen (2011) (w/ co-advisor Deirdre Mulligan).
• Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz, Jess Hemerly (2011).
• trailmix: Curating Rich Media for Online Education, Tanushree Jindal, Alison Meier, Michael Porath, Jessica Voytek (2011).
• Building a Free, Open Source Legal Citator, Rowyn McDonald and Karen Rustad (2012).